Above Photo: A screen shows a projection of US State Department’s Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland speaking in Marrakech on May 11, 2022. Fadel Senna / AFP. Under cover of media focus on the NATO proxy war in Ukraine and the Zionist assassination of Al Jazeera senior correspondent Shireen AbuAkleh, Washington is making moves to annex Syrian territory. On May 11th during the meeting of the “global coalition against Islamic State” in Marrakech, Morocco the U.S acting assistant Secretary of State, , made an extraordinary move that has largely gone under the radar of even independent media. Everyone is distracted by […]
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Above photo: Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez. Chepa Beltran, Alamy. Staging a vice-presidential candidates debate in the runup to Colombia’s May 29 national elections was entirely appropriate. Nevertheless, the location of the event in Washington and its promotion by US-state functionaries requires some explanation. Because of its venue and sponsors, the affair had elements of an audition or a vetting process overseen by the US government. Along with the Washington consensus crowd, members of the Colombian diaspora attended the May 13 event, especially supporters of popular vice-presidential candidate Francia Márquez. Afro-descendent environmentalist Márquez is running with presidential candidate Gustavo Petro. Their frontrunning ticket could be the first administration on the […]
Above Photo: The Tunk Creek Valley in Okanogan County, Washington. Justin Haug. Its Original Stewards. In Washington state, nestled in a habitat corridor linking the Cascades to the Rockies, in the heart of the Tunk Creek Valley, there’s a conservation story that is closely tied to the peoples connected to this land—and continues to breathe with the transfer of Indigenous lands back to the original stewards. It takes place on a large ranch, owned by the Figlenski family for over four generations, who have their own stories connected to the valley. As generations of the Figlenski family began to pass away, […]
Olympia, WA – The Washington State Building Code Council voted 11-3 today to adopt a new statewide commercial and multifamily building energy code that will be the strongest, most climate-friendly in the country by driving the transition to clean electricity for space and water heating. This major win for clean energy coincides with President Joe Biden’s Earth Day Seattle visit where he discussed the infrastructure bill and clean energy. The Department of Energy has made heat pumps and energy efficiency measures a key part of its efforts to reduce emissions and dependence on fossil fuels. Under Washington’s updated energy code that will […]
Washington Should Think Twice Before Launching A New Cold War By William D. Hartung, Nick Cleveland-Stout, And Taylor Giorno, Tom Dispatch. March 22, 2022 Washington Should Think Twice Before Launching A New Cold War2022-03-222022-03-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220322-4-e1647975377180.jpg200px200px A History Lesson For Our Desperate Moment. A growing chorus of pundits and policymakers has suggested that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marks the beginning of a new Cold War. If so, that means trillions of additional dollars for the Pentagon in the years to come coupled with a more aggressive military posture in every corner of the world. Before this country succumbs to calls for a return to Cold War-style Pentagon spending, it’s important […]
Washington Rushes To Hide Its ‘Octopus’ NED Funding In Ukraine By Tim Anderson, Al Mayadeen. March 18, 2022 Washington Rushes To Hide Its ‘Octopus’ NED Funding In Ukraine2022-03-182022-03-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220318-1.webp200px200px Above Photo: Washington rushes to hide its ‘octopus’ NED funding in Ukraine. Many sections of the corporate media and a legion of propaganda agencies are openly and secretly funded by the US. As Russia finally invaded Ukraine – on a rationale similar to that of the US invasion of Iraq, but with greater substance – Washington rushed to delete funding details of Ukraine groups through its Congress-funded ‘National Endowment for Democracy’ (NED). As […]
Above Photo: Anthony Crider. Thousands of truckers are being hijacked by anti-vax loonies and encouraged to parade through red state America in search of any remaining Covid-19 restrictions to protest. The so-called “People’s Convoy” is scheduled to leave Barstow, California, on Wednesday, February 23, and meander eastward, picking up truckers as they go for a final jamboree and road-blocking in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 – the day of Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address. Are these the same organizers that brought us Canada’s “Freedom Convoy,” blocking the streets of the capital, Ottawa, for weeks and blocking border […]
West Bank – The U.S. police in Washington D.C. arrested on Monday seven pro-Palestine protestors from organizations and associations supporting the Palestinian right during a peaceful demonstration in front of the Israeli occupation’s embassy in Washington rejecting Israeli ethnic cleansing in occupied Jerusalem and Anaqab “Negev”. During the demonstration, a sit-in was held at the entrance to the embassy, with the participation of dozens of activists and people in solidarity with Palestine, as well as members of the U.S. Palestinian community. The protestors gathered peacefully outside the Israeli Embassy to denounce the forced expulsion of Palestinians from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood […]
It’s nonstop in the western media. The message – war with Russia is coming. An American friend of mine, now living in Russia, has two sons in the US Army. One of them said to him today, “your two sons are going to be fighting your beloved Russia.” So the troops are obviously being told to prepare for war. One of those sons, an Army Special Forces soldier has been sent to western Ukraine several times to train the Nazi death squads that have been brought into the Ukrainian Army since the US orchestrated coup d’état in 2014. Russia has repeatedly […]
Above image: With ConocoPhillips eyeing Venezuelan assets, Guaidó’s actions suggest more collusion than incompetence. Daniel Duque / Venezuelanalysis. With the US-backed “interim presidency” not going away, VA’s Ricardo Vaz looks at the implications for Venezuela’s foreign assets. On January 3, close to midnight, the expired, opposition-controlled National Assembly (AN) voted to extend its own term and the Juan Guaidó “interim presidency” for yet another year. While there may be doubts about continuing with an experiment that has no prospects of suceeding, there are in fact several billion reasons for these US surrogates to remain in place. The eternal “interim” government This […]
Above Photo: Workers at Cascade Behavioral Health walked out in August following an attack by a patient that injured 11 staff. The National Labor Relations Board concluded this was legal—possibly the first time it has condoned a safety strike in the health care industry. SEIU 1199NW. Nurses and mental health techs at a Tukwila, Washington, facility have won their safety strike after three and a half months on the picket line. Under the settlement, management agreed to staff three security guards for the day shift and two for nights, as well as to restore fired workers to their positions. The contract, which covers […]
Above Photo: Brian A. Nichols, shown here in a file photo from 2017, was recently confirmed as Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere. (Martin Mejia/AP). The government of the United States ratified its seditious policy against Venezuela by continuing to recognize former deputy Juan Guaidó as the interim president of Venezuela. On Tuesday, November 16, the Undersecretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Brian Nichols, confirmed that the US still recognizes former deputy Juan Guaidó “and his government.” The statement was made during Nichols’ appearance before the Foreign Subcommittee of the Chamber of Deputies, in which Nichols was asked […]
Our newest report, “The Regulatory Studies Center: A Stain on the George Washington University Name,” delves into the Koch and ExxonMobil funded RSC, which has repeatedly acted as a front for fossil fuel interests with a history of using GW’s name to provide credibility to climate deniers, fossil fuel cronies, and other discredited backers of pseudoscience. The report, written by UnKoch My Campus Student Organizer and GW student Jake Lowe, highlights a number of instances of climate disinformation and details how the RSC has played a role in promoting a deregulation agenda that benefits its donors. The post The Regulatory Studies […]
Above Photo: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo before casting their vote. (CCC / Jairo Cajina) On Sunday, November 7, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said that the general elections taking place in his country are a sign and a commitment by the vast majority of Nicaraguans to vote for peace and not for war or terrorism. After voting in Managua, the president addressed the nation from the House of the Peoples, expressing that this election does not call for paralyzing the economy and destroying families. He stressed that the people want peace and well-being, while the right-wing sows […]
From Nicaraguan Revolutionaries To US Embassy Informants The Story Of How Nicaragua’s Former Guerrilla Dora María Téllez And Her Anti-Sandinista MRS Party Allied With The Right Wing And Became Coup-Supporting Informants For The US Embassy. One of the most high-profile opponents of Nicaragua’s Sandinista government points to her revolutionary youth to justify her position. And while the international media constantly sings her praise, what it does not mention is that she abandoned revolutionary politics long ago, and has become a key asset in the US government’s campaign of unconventional warfare against Nicaragua. When she was just 22-years-old, Dora María Téllez fought as […]
Above photo: A man waits for a public transportation bus next to a stand that sells T-shirts, flags and hats, with a Sandinista theme, at a bus stop in Managua, Nicaragua, Wednesday, November 3, 2021. Washington has ratcheted up the pressure just days before Nicaragua’s presidential and parliamentary elections, approving legislation calling for more sanctions and other punitive measures. The bipartisan Renacer Act was passed by 387 votes to 35 on Wednesday evening and will be sent to President Joe Biden to pass into law. It is expected to be introduced ahead of Sunday’s poll to pile additional pressure on President […]
Above Photo: A U.S. military plane takes off from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Aug. 30, 2021. (Wali Sabawoon/AP) War and conflict rarely benefit the lives of ordinary people. Indeed, the very nature of war is destructive. In the case of Afghanistan, once the US war and occupation ended, any delusive stability or vitality in the nation’s economy collapsed too. Numbers and statistics only go so far in describing the human condition of postwar-Afghanistan. The United Nations Development Program reported in September that 72 percent of the Afghan population lives in poverty, with 97 percent at risk. As many as 14 million Afghans […]
Many would-be migrants, like the Garifuna, would love nothing more than to stay in their homes. It’s Washington that’s making it difficult. On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I want to tell you about my people, the Garifuna. We’re an Afro-Indigenous people, descended from Arawaks and Africans. Our ancestral territory spans the Caribbean border of Central America. Latin American and Caribbean communities like ours are rarely noticed in U.S. media — except when we migrate. In summer 2021, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris came to Central America and told would-be migrants: “Do not come .” More recently, photos of U.S. Border Patrol agents whipping Haitian refugees in the Texas desert brutally drove […]
Above Photo: Rank-and-file carpenters organizing themselves on Facebook rallied in July and August to oppose contract offers. (Joe Poplaski) After narrowly rejecting a contract offer, the union representing 11,600 working carpenters in Washington state is set to start a strike tomorrow. It’s the fourth offer that members have nixed. A scrappy band of rank and filers known as the Peter J. McGuire Group organized the no vote over inadequate raises—despite pressure from union leaders, who were promoting the deal. They are also seeking reimbursements for high parking costs, increased employer contributions to health care and pension funds, and stronger sexual harassment […]
Protesters rally in Washington, D.C., during the latest Women’s March, demonstrations that began just after President Trump’s inauguration. Carol Guzy for NPR hide caption toggle caption Carol Guzy for NPR Protesters rally in Washington, D.C., during the latest Women’s March, demonstrations that began just after President Trump’s inauguration. Carol Guzy for NPR Women’s Marches are underway Saturday in Washington, D.C., and hundreds of cities across the country. The latest iteration of the protest event — first held the day after President Trump’s 2017 inauguration — comes as the Senate is moving toward a confirmation vote on the president’s third Supreme Court […]
Ankara has been criticized by the US State Department for restarting hydrocarbon exploration in contested waters. Washington said the move “deliberately complicates” de-escalation talks between NATO allies Greece and Turkey. In a statement released on Tuesday, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said: “The United States deplores Turkey’s October 11 announcement of renewed Turkish survey activity in areas over which Greece asserts jurisdiction in the Eastern Mediterranean.” Coercion, threats, intimidation, and military activity will not resolve tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean. We urge Turkey to end this calculated provocation and immediately begin exploratory talks with Greece. Unilateral actions cannot build trust and will […]
On Sunday, Ankara announced that its Oruc Reis research ship would return to disputed waters in the eastern Mediterranean Sea for more surveying work. Greece, Germany and France slammed the decision, with Berlin calling on Turkey to refrain from any “provocations,” and Athens accusing Ankara of breaking its commitments. The United States voiced its displeasure over Turkey’s decision to return the Oruc Reis to disputed waters in the Mediterranean on Tuesday, calling on Ankara to put an immediate halt to what it described as a “calculated provocation.” “The United States deplores Turkey’s October 11 announcement of renewed Turkish survey activity in […]
Amid frequent attacks in the so-called Green Zone’ in Baghdad, several countries, including the United States, have warned Iraq that they may shut down their embassies in the area if shellings on diplomatic missions continue. Iraqi militia groups have agreed to temporarily stop shellings targeting the American military presence in the country, as long as the US-led coalition withdraws its troops from Iraq “in line with a parliamentary resolution”, The Associated Press reported, citing three militia officials. “The militia factions offered a truce and will refrain from targeting the US in Iraq, including the US Embassy, on the condition that American forces […]
Have you ever imagined what George Washington looked like with his shirt off? No? Neither had I. And neither, it turns out, had prudish 19th-century Americans. But on July 31, 1841, a ship from Livorno, Italy, unloaded the highly anticipated monumental statue of the Founding Father that was to be the centerpiece in the Rotunda of the Capitol—and he was half-naked. Source link
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee, pictured in March, made climate change at the center of his presidential campaign earlier this year. Elaine Thompson – Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Elaine Thompson – Pool/Getty Images Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee, pictured in March, made climate change at the center of his presidential campaign earlier this year. Elaine Thompson – Pool/Getty Images The fires in Washington are largely under control now, but the state has been experiencing dangerous, even deadly, wildfires for years, something Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee says are only made worse by climate change. In a recent op-ed in Rolling […]
Last week, Caracas accused the United States of being “the greatest threat to world peace and stability” after Washington slapped Venezuela with additional sanctions on senior government officials for doing business with Iran. The US and its allies have been attempting to overthrow Venezuela’s democratically-elected government since early 2018. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has blasted the Pentagon over its decision to sail a guided missile destroyer to his country’s coast. “Venezuela denounces the erratic and childish provocation by the US Southern Command to send the USS William P Lawrence (DDG-110) Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer to within 16.1 nautical miles […]
As The Veteran Suicide Crisis Persists, Washington Turns To Snake Oil And Swamp Creatures By Jasper Craven and Suzanne Gordon, Battle Borne. September 30, 2020 As The Veteran Suicide Crisis Persists, Washington Turns To Snake Oil And Swamp Creatures2020-09-302020-09-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/battling_ptsd-e1601484685658.jpg200px200px The first major bill to privatize veterans’ mental healthcare is headed to the president’s desk. In mid-August, former Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Anthony Principi (2001-2005) worked to get a number of fellow former VA chiefs to sign on to a draft Op-Ed encouraging the House to take up a Senate-passed suicide prevention bill —S. 785: The Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care […]
US Ambassador David Satterfield is treating Turkey like a colony, Ankara’s health minister Fahrettin Koca said, commenting on the escalating row over the skyrocketing debt Turkey owes to American drug companies. “What the ambassador did is neither correct nor ethical. He is using manipulation at a time when we are holding talks with drug companies. He may be able to do such acts in colonies, but this is not such a country,” Koca told reporters on Friday, while visiting the Black Sea province of Samsun. Also on rt.com Turkey announces live-fire drills in Eastern Mediterranean as Erdogan tells Trump Ankara not […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/17/1080554773_0:320:3072:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_beae01328d2651fd502ecaf511d18b6d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009231080554809-live-washington-dc-protesters-demand-justice-for-breonna-taylor-in-wake-of-grand-jury-decision/ Renewed Black Lives Matter protests have broken out across the US in the wake of a Wednesday decision by a Kentucky grand jury not to indict for murder any of the officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, on March 13. In Washington, DC, demonstrators gathered outside the US Department of Justice. The Kentucky National Guard has been called into Louisville, where a 9 p.m. local time curfew has been scheduled amid nationwide protests triggered by the grand jury’s decision regarding the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009221080541258-macron-europe-will-not-compromise-with-washington-on-iran-sanctions/ French President Emmanuel Macron called for a “modern new consensus” on tackling global challenges in his speech to the 75th UN General Assembly on 22 September. Europe will not compromise with the United States on Iran sanctions, French President Emmanuel Macron told the UN General Assembly by video. “We will not compromise on the activation of a mechanism that the United States is not in a position to activate on its own after leaving the agreement. This would undermine the unity of the Security Council and the integrity of its decisions, and it would […]
Changing The Washington Guard By Roger Harris, Popular Resistance. September 18, 2020 Changing The Washington Guard2020-09-182020-09-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/biden.jpeg200px200px What a Democratic Sweep in November Portends. At the risk of counting chickens before they hatch, what would the return of Team Blue portend? As is patently obvious, the US is in trouble. Climate driven heat waves and fires grip the nation. An already faltering economy with deep contradictions could only tank given the shock of the pandemic that has necessitated varying degrees of sequestering. In fact, the downturn had already started before COVID-19 hit. An already largely privatized healthcare system run for profit and […]
Our industry seeks to revolutionize many of the most important and regulated functions of our society. Due to that ambition, no other industry of comparable size and age has so quickly captured the focus of policymakers and regulators. This attention creates unique challenges and opportunities. Policies enacted in the coming years related to securities laws, anti-money laundering and know-your-customer requirements, market integrity and taxes could smother our nascent industry, or they could lay the foundation for a flourishing and vibrant cryptocurrency and blockchain economy. Kristin Smith is the executive director of the Blockchain Association, which celebrates its two- year anniversary this […]
On Friday morning, days after wildfires overtook Butte County, California, relatives of 49-year-old Kelly Burke were frantically searching for her and spreading the word that she was missing on social media. One neighbor in the woods near her town, Berry Creek, claimed to see Burke evacuate with friends, but no one could reach her. “Living in Idaho and not being able to search for mom is killing me,” Burke’s daughter Chelsea Vonarmfelt wrote on Facebook. The next morning, Vonarmfelt began a long drive from Boise, intent on finding Burke, who’d vanished after the North Complex fire leveled her rural community of […]
When he couldn’t reach his cousin Jake Hyland on Monday, Jim Mabry drove to his family’s remote property in rural Washington state, where wildfires turned pastures of 4-foot-high sage into dust. Jake and his wife, Jamie, along with their 1-year-old son, Uriel, were visiting their land in Okanogan County when flames from the Cold Springs Fire ripped through the area. Relatives couldn’t reach the couple, or emergency services, because power lines were down. On Tuesday, Mabry discovered Jake’s truck stuck in a ravine, about a quarter of a mile from the land. The vehicle had blown through a barbed wire fence. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0a/1080423256_44:-1:1244:675_1200x675_80_0_0_9b769871b6170de43515c01e452c79e2.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/environment/202009101080423286-videos-heavy-rains-flood-white-house-basement-submerge-roads-around-washington-dc/ Photos of the White House basement flooded with water were shared on social media Thursday, as heavy rains fell on the Washington, DC, area. “Flash flood warning. Basement of the @WhiteHouse. Trying to remember how long a cubit is…..” Fox News Chief White House Correspondent John Roberts tweeted Thursday, along with photos of carpeted floors soaked in water. In another tweet, Roberts shared a photo of a flooded hallway with the caption: “Time to start bailing…!!” Roads across the US capital are flooded, with flash flood watches currently in place until 8 p.m. local […]
Chinese students whose visas were revoked by the US were persecuted for political reasons, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said, adding that Beijing reserves the right to respond to the move. The visa move by Washington amounts to “outright political persecution and racial discrimination” of Chinese students and a violation of their human rights, the ministry’s spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said. The revocation of visas and other anti-Chinese steps by the US “run counter to its self-proclaimed openness and freedom,” he added. The spokesman urged Washington to “immediately stop its unreasonable restrictions and suppression of Chinese students.” Beijing “reserves the right to […]
The Washington Redskins football team, recently under fire for its branding, with some seeing it as controversial amid nationwide protests for racial injustice, announced that it will change its name. The Biden campaign acknowledged on Wednesday that it had altered an image aired in a CNN documentary “Fight for the White House: Joe Biden’s Long Journey”, claiming that the Washington Redskins logo was removed to avoid copyright complaints, The Washington Post reported. Attentive viewers of the film earlier noticed the absence of the football team logo on the hat of a young Joe Biden in arms of his father. “The practice of removing […]
The college town of Pullman, Washington, is in the midst of a COVID-19 crisis. It has one of the highest per capita infection rates in the country; the National Guard was called in to help with testing; and Washington State University asked students to stay on campus last weekend to avoid spreading the virus. And yet, last Friday, more than two dozen people gathered in the driveway of WSU Head Women’s Basketball Coach Kamie Ethridge’s house for what she later described to police as a “mini block party.” An incident report from the evening in question, read to The Daily Beast […]
In this photo from the Whitman County Sheriff’s Office, little remains of a building in Malden, Wash. A fast-moving wildfire destroyed 80% of the town on Labor Day. Whitman County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook hide caption toggle caption Whitman County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook In this photo from the Whitman County Sheriff’s Office, little remains of a building in Malden, Wash. A fast-moving wildfire destroyed 80% of the town on Labor Day. Whitman County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook Almost every structure in the small farming town of Malden in eastern Washington state was destroyed by a fast-moving fire Monday as high winds created what officials described as […]
Washington State Police Target Black March Organizers With Arrests By Nathalie Graham, The Stranger. September 5, 2020 Washington State Police Target Black March Organizers With Arrests2020-09-052020-09-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/wsp-e1599333622247.jpg200px200px Above photo: Washington State Patrol approaches the lead protest vehicle. Nathalie Graham. On Friday morning the Washington State Patrol (WSP) arrested nine people on suspicion of disorderly conduct during a protest that shut down the southbound lanes of I-5, congested Seattle streets, and backed up traffic to Bellevue. Marchers say they block traffic to disrupt people living their day-to-day lives, and to bring the Black Lives Matter protest to where those people are. Last week Morning Marchers shut […]
Donnie, some of us would rather be suckers, even dead and maimed, than you. pic.twitter.com/ih5xyoOJwm — Gordon Duff (@gpduf) September 5, 2020 #LincolnProject Airline Capt. Sully- “1st time in American history, a president has repeatedly shown utter & vulgar contempt & disrespect for those who have served and died serving our country,” “While I am not surprised, I am disgusted by the current occupant of the Oval Office pic.twitter.com/5fcVR1Eanb — Billy Hollywood (@veric38) September 5, 2020 By the end of the year, Trump will have killed more Americans than Hitler did. https://t.co/feK4e9dAyT — The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) September 5, 2020 BUT […]
A memorandum issued on Wednesday by the White House directed a review of federal funding allocated to certain cities that “allow themselves to deteriorate into lawless zones” and “permit anarchy, violence, and destruction.” In addition to the legal questions raised by the order, one expert claims it’s also filled with disinformation. Cities explicitly deemed “anarchist jurisdictions” by the White House included: New York City, New York; Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; and the US capital of Washington, DC. Eugene Puryear, host at BreakThrough News and author of “Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America,” joined Radio Sputnik’s Political Misfits on Thursday […]
The Metropolitan Police Department on Thursday released bodycam footage of an officer fatally shooting 18-year-old Deon Kay seconds after arriving at the scene in Washington, D.C. Officers say the Black teen “brandished a firearm” during the Wednesday encounter, prompting one cop to shoot him in the chest. He was later pronounced dead at a local hospital, spurring immediate protests across the nation’s capital that continued into Thursday outside the mayor’s home. Officials revealed Thursday the officer who shot Kay is Alexander Alvarez, who joined the MPD in 2018. The body-camera footage, which was released less than 24 hours after the incident, […]
In a scenario reminiscent of the Rachel Dolezal scandal, an African history professor at George Washington University has admitted to pretending to be a Black woman throughout her career. “I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim: first North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness,” Jessica A. Krug confessed in a post on Medium. “I am not a culture vulture. I am a culture leech,” Krug wrote, saying she’s been battling “unaddressed mental health demons” […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009011080332822-russian-embassy-in-washington-says-us-military-exercises-in-estonia-provocative-dangerous/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Russian Embassy in Washington called the US military drills in Estonia, underway 1-10 September, provocative and dangerous. “We drew attention to messages, including in The Washington Times with anti-Russian assertions, and media support to the exercises of the US and Estonian Armed Forces taking place from 1 September to 10 September using multiple launch rocket systems in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders – 70 mi (110 km)”, it said on Facebook. “The Russian Federation has repeatedly offered to the United States and its allies to limit training activities […]
US scientists are continuing to sound the alarm on the potential environmental and agricultural threats posed by the Asian giant hornet – or “murder hornet” – as sightings and captures of the slaughterous insect have been on the rise in Washington. However, recent efforts to trap the invasive insect have yielded just a single specimen. Whatcom County, Washington, officials announced on Friday that a beekeeper from the Evergreen State had recently delivered a successfully trapped specimen that was later confirmed to be a deceased Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia). The insect captured by the beekeeper was recorded as one of the […]
DC Police Ramp Up Aggressive Tactics After March On Washington By Jenny Gathright, DCist. August 31, 2020 DC Police Ramp Up Aggressive Tactics After March On Washington2020-08-312020-08-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/police-confront-demonstrators-in-downtown-d.c.-early-on-aug.-30.-this-has-been-a-show-of-force-that-hasnt-been-seen-in-a-while-one-organizer-said..jpg200px200px Above photo: Police confront demonstrators in downtown D.C. early on Aug. 30. ‘This has been a show of force that hasn’t been seen in a while,’ one organizer said. By Jenny Gathright for WAMU. ‘Scary’ Show Of Force. Friday’s March on Washington brought massive crowds to downtown D.C. and ended without any significant confrontations between police and protesters. But as demonstrations bled into the weekend, the response from authorities took a combative turn. Louise Van Assche, a documentary filmmaker, […]
Jason Wright joined the Washington Football Team as the new president while the team reckons with allegations of sexual harassment and changing a racist nickname. McKinsey & Company hide caption toggle caption McKinsey & Company Jason Wright joins the Washington Football Team as it confronts a series of crises: allegations of sexual harassment and bullying, the COVID-19 pandemic and changing a racist team name. Wright is the first Black person to ever be an NFL team president. He arrives after seven years as a partner at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, and before that, seven years as an NFL player, […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) claims that his life was saved by police Thursday night when he says he was “attacked by an angry mob” of protesters when leaving the White House after President Donald Trump’s big Republican National Convention speech. Videos of the confrontation appear to show that the senator was heckled, but not actually touched by protesters. Paul tweeted early Friday: “Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House. Thank you to DC Police Dept for literally saving our lives from a crazed mob.” Videos show protesters surrounding the Republican and […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was left with little support after he attempted to extend UN sanctions against Iran, despite the US having withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal. Despite this loss, Pompeo has been on a campaign in Bahrain and other parts of the Middle East, pushing an anti-Iran narrative. Miko Peled, the author of “The General’s Son: The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine,” and of “Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five,” asserted to Loud & Clear hosts Brian Becker and John Kiriakou that Iran is only brought up by Washington when Israeli Prime Minister […]
The CoronaVirus molecule COVID-19: A Scientific Quest To End Pandemic We are tracking 200 experimental vaccines aimed at ending the pandemic, a scientific quest moving at record-breaking speed. https://t.co/5pupOOgpcN — Post Graphics (@PostGraphics) August 21, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: This is a neat and very understandable sitrep on what is happening with COVID-19 vaccine development…..Carol Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of […]
Enjoying your trial of Marxism? The National Park Service approved a 50,000-person march on Washington led by race-baiter Al Sharpton and Rev. Mark Thompson amid a pandemic that apparently only restricts large gatherings of Christians and Trump supporters. The march, dubbed “Get Your Knees Off Our Necks” will take place on August 28 which is the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. The ‘protesters’ will march from the Lincoln Memorial to the National Mall. TRENDING: “This Dude is Shooting at Us!” – BLM Militants Run For Their Lives After Milwaukee Homeowner Fires Warning Shots at […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/19/1080268432_63:0:1897:1032_1200x675_80_0_0_e94a69751307649ae6f476d313188105.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008251080268498-videos-demonstrators-demand-police-reform-take-to-washington-dc-streets-after-wisconsin-shooting/ Local activists and demonstrators have taken to the streets of Washington, DC, to demand nationwide police reform and protest cops’ recent killings and shootings of unarmed Black individuals, including the recent attack which threatened the life of a Black man in Wisconsin. Though demonstrations have regularly occurred in the US capital since the May 25 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Monday’s protests appeared revitalized following the shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old unarmed Black man who was shot in the back seven times by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday. Blake, […]
At Washington Post, Defunding Police Is A Step Too Radical By Oivia Riggio, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. August 22, 2020 At Washington Post, Defunding Police Is A Step Too Radical2020-08-222020-08-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/blm-wapo.png200px200px Above photo: If Americans resist the idea of defunding police, they’re following the lead of outlets like the Washington Post (7/21/20). NOTE: There is an honest critique of defunding the police on the Left as a non-solution that does not address the inherent racism in policing or lead to democratic community control over police that would shift the power to communities. Since the May 25 murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police, […]
The GOP—including a Black Republican organization—plans to hold “a First Amendment demonstration” during convention week in the same park where law enforcement rousted Black Lives Matter protesters to clear the way for a President Donald Trump photo-op in June. The Daily Beast obtained a permit application that the Maryland GOP submitted Thursday afternoon for three gatherings of 10,000 people on National Parks Service property, which the state Republican Party said it would run in conjunction with the Maryland Black Republican Council. The trio of events, described in the paperwork as sign-waving celebrations of the First Amendment, would occur on Tuesday morning […]
A senior US official has declared that no outside aid can fix Lebanon’s problems, yet in the same breath offered funds to alleviate the country’s problems – provided Beirut toe the American line. In the aftermath of the devastating explosion that levelled much of Beirut and killed more than 200 people, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale has condemned Lebanon’s ruling elite, declaring that his government cannot fix the country’s problems from outside. Also on rt.com ‘Impossible’ that Hezbollah arms caused Beirut port blast – Lebanon’s president Indeed, Lebanon was in dire financial straits before the explosion, […]
A male Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) – known popularly as the “murder hornet” – has been trapped and collected by Washington state officials, signaling that the invasive species may devastate the region’s bee colonies and agricultural system sooner than anticipated. The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) announced in a Monday news release that it achieved the first capture of a male Asian giant hornet in US history via a bottle trap near Custer, Whatcom County, on July 29. The WSDA entomology lab was able to confirm the specimen was indeed a male Asian giant hornet on August 13. “Trapping […]
Jason Wright, pictured in 2009 when he was with the Arizona Cardinals, will lead the organization’s business divisions, including operations, finance, sales, and marketing, as team president. NFL Photos/NFL hide caption toggle caption NFL Photos/NFL Jason Wright, pictured in 2009 when he was with the Arizona Cardinals, will lead the organization’s business divisions, including operations, finance, sales, and marketing, as team president. NFL Photos/NFL Jason Wright knows he’s expected to be an outsider as he becomes the NFL’s first Black — and youngest — team president. The 38-year-old former running back is making history for the league with its record of […]
The garbage DC website known as the Washington Post was kinder to ISIS terror leader Al-Baghdadi in death than they were to Robert Trump, President Trump’s younger brother. Our elite news media is vicious and mean. Here is what they wrote about al-Baghdadi when he was killed by US forces. Advertisement – story continues below Al-Baghdadi was an “austere religious scholar”. TRENDING: Garbage DC Website Known for Promoting Conspiracies Attacks Gateway Pundit After Crashing White House Press Corps Coven Robert Trump sued his unhinged niece. Advertisement – story continues below Via Jewish Deplorable: The Washington Post wrote a nicer obituary for […]
A piece on how the Biden and Harris ticket sticks it to the Democrats has drawn an outpouring of mockery after describing the duo’s foreign policy platform as ‘muscular liberalism’. A Washington Post column penned by political commentator Josh Rogin heaped praise on Joe Biden’s Vice President pick, Kamala Harris. Together they would usher a “return to the way world politics used to work, with a strong America leading a strong multilateral system,” he argued. Once they take the White House, the centrist dream team would firmly oppose the vision of the likes of Bernie Sanders, who want “smaller defense budgets, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/0f/1080175873_0:112:3072:1840_1200x675_80_0_0_4be8f022a0a93abd8fce3aabdae2fcf2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Muhammad Osman. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202008151080175847-video-washington-dc-police-detain-over-40-blm-protesters-involved-in-rioting-behaviors/ On Thursday night, a Black Lives Matter demonstration took place in the Washington DC neighbourhood of Adams-Morgan, outside of the Third District police station. Protesters told WJLA-TV, an ABC-affiliated TV station in the US capital that they were “marching to let people know they are still here”. Washington DC Police Department said on Friday they have detained 41 protesters for “engaged in rioting behaviors” that took place on Thursday night, on charges of “Felony Rioting & Assault on Police Officer offences”. “We facilitate daily peaceful demonstrations in DC. Overnight, intentional fires were […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed frustration over stalled plans to annex the West Bank, blaming the hold-up on Washington’s reluctance to approve the move. “It was clear from the start that the application of sovereignty would be done only with agreement from the United States. Otherwise, I would have already done it a while ago,” Netanyahu told Israel’s Channel 20. He claimed that US President Donald Trump was now “busy with other things” and that “issues of importance to Israel” were not a top priority for Washington at the moment. The annexation, which is part of Trump’s ‘peace plan’ […]
A TGP reader Gusano sent this to us this morning. Gusano lives in Broward County Florida and he received a letter from a Democrat in Washington state encouraging him to ask local officials to vote by mail. The letter from “Judy” even includes instructions on how to apply for mail in ballots. Trump was right. TRENDING: Teen Activist Who Rallied to Defund Police and Remove Police from Schools Is Shot Dead in Chicago The left is pushing this all over the country because they know it is easier to cheat that way. “Judy” certainly has no interest in this person’s well-being. […]
Some Washington Republicans worry that Kris Kobach, a polarizing conservative who lost a race for governor last year, would become the GOP’s Senate candidate and lose in the general election. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption toggle caption Charlie Riedel/AP Some Washington Republicans worry that Kris Kobach, a polarizing conservative who lost a race for governor last year, would become the GOP’s Senate candidate and lose in the general election. Charlie Riedel/AP Voters head to the polls in a handful of states Tuesday, in the latest tests of voting systems stressed by the ongoing pandemic. Primaries are set for Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri […]
US-China tensions are nowhere near a decrement, as Washington has yet again poked the Dragon by clamping down on the popular Chinese app TikTok over national security concerns. American observers have discussed the string of US anti-Beijing measures, the risks these steps are fraught with, and whether the countries will return to working relations. The latest ban has come on the heels of a series of anti-China measures, including sanctions against senior officials of the People’s Republic and an abrupt closure of China’s Consulate in Houston. The Economist notes that although China and America “are not about to take up arms”, […]
Mount Adams rises in the distance beyond the largely agricultural Yakima Valley, in Yakima, Wash. Elaine Thompson / AP hide caption toggle caption Elaine Thompson / AP Mount Adams rises in the distance beyond the largely agricultural Yakima Valley, in Yakima, Wash. Elaine Thompson / AP It’s strawberry season in northwest Washington’s Skagit Valley. For Ana, a farmworker, that means long days bent nearly doubled over to snap ripe strawberries from low bushes. “You have to lean over a lot to pick strawberries, so of course everything hurts — your legs, your back — everything,” she said in an interview in […]
By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor, for Press TV Iran’s military has just held a bunch of war games in the Strait of Hormuz featuring a mock-up of US aircraft carrier, which of course would be the prime target if the US ever attacked Iran—its fleet in the Persian Gulf would face serious problems. I think Iran is sending a message that if Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump think that they need to start a big Middle East war to try to keep them out of prison and keep them in power, well, they need to think again, because that war […]
Frontline doctors from across the US held a “White Coat Summit” on Monday in Washington DC to dispel the misinformation and myths surrounding the coronavirus. The doctors are very concerned with the disinformation campaign being played out in the far left American media today. From their website: “If Americans continue to let so-called experts and media personalities make their decisions, the great American experiment of a Constitutional Republic with Representative Democracy, will cease.” Here is a list of the doctors speaking at the event today. TRENDING: We Asked Our Readers to Send Photos of the Democrat Party Sanctioned Destruction and Rioting […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/19/1079983383_0:0:3232:1818_1200x675_80_0_0_0f8744b405981754a6b4b62c9cf0c547.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007251079981084-protest-in-washington-against-deployment-of-federal-police—video/ On 22 July, US President Donald Trump announced that he would send a “surge of federal law enforcement” to the city in order to stop “violent crimes” and promised to keep sending them to other Democrat-run cities. Live from Washington D.C. where people have gathered to protest against US President Donald Trump’s decision to send federal law enforcement to cities in order to end ‘violent crime.’ Earlier this month, Trump deployed federal police to Portland, Oregon, where protesters clashed violently with the newly arrived security forces. He also announced the deployment of federal law enforcement […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007231079959531-chinese-embassy-in-washington-calls-on-us-to-calm-tensions/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Chinese Embassy in Washington issued a statement calling on the United States to de-escalate tensions between the two countries. “If the China-US relationship is a vehicle, the US is taking it onto a wrong path, and worse still, it is hitting the accelerator”, the Chinese Embassy said in the statement on Wednesday night. “It’s time to step on the brakes and return to the right direction”. On Tuesday, the US State Department ordered Beijing to close down its consulate in Houston, Texas, in 72 hours over accusations that it has […]
LONDON – The U.K. and U.S. governments have turned to startups and inventors in a competition to adapt commercial technology solutions to answer pressing challenges in the military space sector. The two countries have jointly put up £1 million, or $1.3 million, to tap into potential new ideas in six technology areas from small companies, innovators and others around the world. The finalists will face a beauty parade in front of senior British, American and NATO military officials at a space conference scheduled to take place in London in November. Up to 15 proposals will be selected to go forward with […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases wore a Washington Nationals face mask before testifying at a congressional hearing on June 30. The team announced he will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at their season opener on Thursday. Kevin Dietsch/AP Dr. Anthony Fauci To Throw First Pitch For Washington Nationals’ Season Opener by Rachel Treisman/npr.org When America’s pastime officially returns on Thursday, it will be ushered in by none other than the country’s leading infectious disease expert. The Washington Nationals announced Monday that Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, […]
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After a Washington Post story reporting multiple instances of sexual harassment against female employees, the Washington NFL team’s owner Dan Snyder said the alleged behavior had “no place in our franchise or society,” and hired independent investigators to look at the allegations. Mike Stewart/AP hide caption toggle caption Mike Stewart/AP After a Washington Post story reporting multiple instances of sexual harassment against female employees, the Washington NFL team’s owner Dan Snyder said the alleged behavior had “no place in our franchise or society,” and hired independent investigators to look at the allegations. Mike Stewart/AP The NFL and Washington team owner Dan […]
A criminal investigation has been launched by the Virginia State Police after a trooper was observed gleefully taunting and threatening a motorist during an April 2019 traffic stop on the Capital Beltway. Footage published on Monday by civil rights attorney Joshua Erlich shows Virginia State Trooper Charles Hewitt reaching through Derrick Thompson’s car window and unlocking the driver-side door, despite the motorist’s repeated protests. “I am a f**king specimen right here,” the state trooper asserted while pointing at his own face. Thompson continued to narrate the traffic stop while facing away from Hewitt’s direction and into his phone’s camera. “You’re going […]
China has accused the US of trying to inflame tensions among powers that have stakes in the South China Sea. The rebuke comes after Washington formally rejected China’s territorial claims in the region on behalf of US allies. In a strongly-worded statement on Tuesday, the Chinese embassy in the US demanded that Washington keep its distance from the disputes between Beijing and other nations claiming sovereignty over contested territorial waters and islets in the South China Sea. “We advise the US side to earnestly honor its commitment of not taking sides on the issue of territorial sovereignty, respect regional countries’ efforts […]
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The announcement comes after the National Football League (NFL) asked the team to reconsider its nickname, which has been considered offensive to Native Americans. Amazon is pulling Washington Redskins football team merchandise from its website, including jerseys, T-shirts and jewellery, the company announced on Wednesday. “With the announcement from the Washington team and the NFL, we are removing products with the team’s name and logo from our stores”, spokesperson Ed Rosenberg confirmed. “Failure to properly close or delete all restricted product listings from your inventory may result in deactivation.” Walmart, Target, and Nike, the NFL’s official uniform supplier, have also announced they […]
Dissociated Press The Nazi Anti-Defamation League (NADL) has awarded Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeff Lurie its highest award, the Knight of the Iron Cross, for inflicting “the most severe punishment imaginable” on wide receiver DeSean Jackson: trading him back to the Washington R*dsk*ns. “DeSean Jackson must not be allowed to misquote the sacred words of der Fuhrer with impunity,” explained NADL head Jonathan Groinbutt. “This trade sends a message that any NFL player who doesn’t treat Hitler with proper respect will soon find himself playing for a garbage franchise whose politically-incorrect name stinks so badly it needs to be asterisked like a […]
Another day, another hate hoax…Umatilla County commissioner candidate Jonathan Lopez admitted this week he faked the hate mail he posted on his facebook page. Lopez posted the hateful letter filled with racist, homophobic and misogynist slurs.What a nut. And Lopez said he served in the US Coast Guard.It was another lie and violation of the Stolen Valor Act. KOMO News reported: TRENDING: Radical Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls For “Dismantling” of US “Economy and Political Systems” (VIDEO) A man who claimed he received a hate-filled, racist letter from an anonymous person allegedly wrote the letter himself, Hermiston Police say. Chief Jason […]
Nearly three years ago in August 2017 President Trump warned that Democrats will soon be taking down Washington and Jefferson statues. Trump called it. President Trump: George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to now take down, excuse me. Are we going to take down statues of George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? OK, good. Are we going to take down his statue because he was a major slave owner? Now, are we going to […]
Washington Threatens Military Action Against Iran After UN Meeting By Staff, Middle East Eye. July 6, 2020 Washington Threatens Military Action Against Iran After UN Meeting2020-07-062020-07-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/members-of-the-un-security-council-listen-as-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-delivers-remarks-virtually-on-30-june-afp-e1594060472220.jpg200px200px Above photo: Members of the UN Security Council listen as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks virtually on 30 June (AFP) Note: Shortly after this UN Security Council rejection of the US and its threat of military action against Iran, the US government sought a court order authorizing the seizure of four Iranian oil tankers arguing it was subject to civil forfeiture. On Friday a US District Court in Washington, DC issued a warrant for […]
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois) appeared to confirm conservatives’‘slippery slope’ concerns about the tearing down of historical monuments, when she told CNN she is open to memorials to George Washington being removed. Duckworth, who has been floated as a possible pick for Joe Biden’s vice presidential nominee, took no umbrage with the idea of protesters targeting Washington statues when she was confronted with the idea in a Sunday interview with CNN. “I think we should listen to everybody. I think we should listen to the argument there,” she said, then quickly moving into the safer zone of criticizing President Donald Trump for […]
The Democrat party hates America. The Democrat party supports the Maoist revolution tearing down statues and erasing US history. Advertisement – story continues below Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) on Sunday said she is open to taking down statues of George Washington. Duckworth also slammed President Trump’s Mount Rushmore visit for “standing on ground that was stolen from Native Americans.” TRENDING: Nike Spokesman Colin Kaepernick’s Independence Day Message: “We Reject Your Celebration of White Supremacy” (Video) Anti-American Maoist Democrats like Tammy Duckworth must be stopped. WATCH: Advertisement – story continues below Democrat Senator Tammy Duckworth says she’s open to tearing down statues […]
Washington Redskins head coach Ron Rivera said work is underway to rename the NFL franchise, and revealed his hopes for the club to unveil its new name before the NFL season’s mid-September start. It was announced on Friday that the team was conducting a “thorough review” of the team’s name, and a host of outlets have suggested that a name change could be implemented before Week 1 of the 2020 NFL season, when Washington will take on the Philadelphia Eagles on September 13. Coach Rivera shares that optimism, and told the Washington Post that he would love for things to be […]
The resentment for America at CNN was on full display during Independence Day weekend, particularly as a CNN pundit referred to the Founding Fathers as just a couple of slave owners. During the network’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s speech at Mt. Rushmore, Leyla Santiago said that “President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he’ll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans.” CNN: “President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he’ll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away […]
Many brands have recently reconsidered their name and actions in light of anti-racist protests rocking the US and some European countries. Last week, the US country music trio Dixie Chicks changed its name to remove the reference to Confederate states, which, in the mid 19th century, fought to preserve the enslavement of Blacks in the US. One of the top American football teams, the Washington Redskins, has announced that it will carry out a “thorough review” of the team’s name in a bid to rid itself of its derogatory perception, but while preserving the team’s heritage. “This process allows the team […]
The NFL franchise announced Friday that recent events have pushed it to examine its controversial name. In recent days, corporate sponsors and investors have put pressure on the team to take action. (Image credit: Nick Wass/AP) Source link
Medical supplies sent by the federal government to help with coronavirus testing have been too slow to arrive and have failed quality control checks, according to Washington state’s top health official. A US government program aimed at supporting nationwide testing efforts has been “beset by logistical problems that impede our pandemic response and undermine our shared goals,” Washington state Secretary of Health John Wiesman wrote in a letter to US Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brett Giroir. Wiesman claimed that his state had received around 250,000 bulk-packaged swabs from the federal government, which had to be individually re-sterilized in order to […]
Republican US Senator John Thune on 30 June suggested purchasing and removing the Turkish-owned Russian-built S-400s from Ankara, in a bid to break a deadlock over weapons which Washington claims are incompatible with NATO security standards and might compromise operations of the new fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets. Retired Turkish Air Force Major General Beyazit Karatas commented on a GOP proposal to purchase Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems from Turkey. Karatas noted first that the implementation of such an initiative is impossible: “I find it tragicomic that US senators introduce such amendments, even allowing the very idea”. He noted that there were […]
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The Russian Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation has denied that U.S. would be able to buy Turkey’s Russian-made S-400 air defense system under legislation proposed in the Senate last week. “To export military products, a buyer of our weapons must present an end-user declaration to the Russian side. That is why transfer or re-export of such products to third countries is impossible without an official permit from the Russian side,” the press service of Russia’s Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation told TASS on Tuesday. As Defense News previously reported, Senate Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D. has prepared a proposal […]
…by Jonas E. Alexis It was about 9:30 p.m. when several police officers got a call to go to a convenience store at South First Street and Glenfield Drive, Texas. It was related to a 29-year-old Gabriel Cobarrubias, who “used his car to block another vehicle that was parked at the store.”[1] Cobarrubias, who was driving a red Infinity, was obviously asked to move his car, but he refused. “What are you gonna do?” he responded to the employee. Cobarrubias, in order to put fear in the heart of the employee, grabbed his two handguns and fired several rounds in the […]
The NAACP’s president called the move an “exceptional opportunity.” He said it will allow the organization to “amplify the voices of the Black people as we fight for the crucial policy changes.” (Image credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) Source link
Democracy dies in darkness, but racism thrives in broad daylight at the Washington Post. Karen Attiah, Global Opinion editor for the Post, posted several racist attacks against white woman on Twitter Sunday, including one that warned white women they are lucky black people aren’t seeking revenge on them for among other grievances voting for President Trump. Attiah deleted that tweet, but tweeted and retweeted several racist tweets about white women. Attiah was born in the U.S. in 1986 to parents who immigrated from Ghana. Attiah wrote and deleted, “The lies and tears of White women hath wrought: The 1921 Tulsa Massacre, […]
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It may be his greatest prank since Borat sang “Throw the Jew Down the Well” in an Arizona country and western bar more than 15 years ago. On Saturday, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen apparently infiltrated the “March for Our Rights 3” rally in downtown Olympia, Washington, getting at least some of the right-wing militia attendees to sing racist lyrics along with him about Barack Obama, Dr. Fauci, and the “Wuhan flu.” According to event organizers, Baron Cohen first disguised himself as the leader of a PAC that wanted to sponsor the rally and then hired his own security to block them […]
When federal prosecutors charged Jack Abramoff on Thursday with an illicit conspiracy to promote a cryptocurrency, they alleged that the disgraced lobbyist hired writers to help him with his scheme. The indictment did not name names. But new court documents point squarely to an employee of The Daily Caller and other conservative media outlets. Abramoff, who served almost four years in prison for his wide-ranging Washington influence peddling schemes, found himself in legal hot water again this week for his attempts to promote AML Bitcoin, a supposedly “anti-money laundering” cryptocurrency created by Texan businessman Marcus Andrade. As part of his duties, Abramoff […]
From the administrative point of view, Washington currently has the status of the federal District of Columbia that is not part of any state. The US House of Representatives has voted 232-180 to make Washington DC the 51st US state. It marked the first time the entire House was allowed to vote on a bill granting DC statehood. The initiative has been sponsored by congressmen from the US Democratic Party, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arguing Washington’s “low status” as the federal District of Columbia is a “grave injustice” that needs to be changed. The bill is most likely to be voted down […]